Conyers Middleton, D.D Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge : from an original in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > Conyers Middleton, D.D Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge : from an original in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Conyers Middleton, D.D Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge : from an original in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]
- Creator
- Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
- Contributor
-
Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1751]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Sold [by J. Faber] at the Golden Head near the church, Bloomsbury Square
- Abstract
-
"Portrait, half-length directed to right, wearing dark clerical vestments, bands and a short white wig, looking towards the viewer with his hands on his knees."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
Printseller identified as J. Faber in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Price 1s. 6d."
After a painting by Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 626.
Mounted on page 92 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12. - Provenance
- Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 33.1 x 23 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Reproductions
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1751 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750,
- Subjects
-
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750
England > London > 1751
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13207975
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193087